Human Resources committee  I think there's some confusion. What has happened is that under the bilateral agreement between Ontario and the federal government, the provincial government had accepted the quad principles: quality, universal, affordable, and developmental. They were using their funding under t

Human Resources committee  The $97 million is the end of the funding under the provincial child care agreement. That's the end of the funding, that's not the new funding.

Human Resources committee  It's unfortunate that the debate in our country has pitted the needs of working families against the needs of stay-at-home families. It's an unfortunate state that our leaders would allow the needs of children to be pitted against each other, the needs of families to be pitted ag

Human Resources committee  Approximately 12% of the child care sector is unionized across the country. I'm not quite sure how it breaks down in other provinces between for-profit and non-profit.

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Thank you. CUPE Local 2204 represents 230 early childhood educators, cooks, cleaners and clerical staff in 12 child care centres here in the city of Ottawa, and we count ourselves among the 10,000 child care workers whom our national union represents. Our members, along with th